The Strayed Baroness

$55
Item Code: MB79
Specifications:
Water Color on Old Urdu Manuscript Paper
Dimensions 3.3" X 6.4"
Handmade
Handmade
Free delivery
Free delivery
Fully insured
Fully insured
100% Made in India
100% Made in India
Fair trade
Fair trade
Though apparently the portrait of a rich young lady or baroness, yet the total perspective she has been depicted with constitutes a theme which is somewhat unusual for a portrait. She is lavishly bejewelled and richly costumed, pointing to her affluent status. The crown on her head, the dagger on her waist and the sword in hand, both mounted and laid with gold, and a golden bowl and water jug and her pet dog beside, speak of her aristocratic station in life, a medieval baroness.

The stuffed bag lying by her side may contain money. In the dark night around her the landscape is not suggestive of a pathway, which would have indicated that she was on her way when the night fell. Her dismayed face with the anxious look on it suggests that she has lost her way, and maybe on the look for someone to help her. But this is not the complete solution of the puzzle.

She has a delicate figure, fine fingers and transparent complexion, all too contrary to the heavy luggage which she to have been carrying. Equally strange is the lack of attendants or servants, who used to be a regular part of the paraphernalia of ladies of rank.

The artist, by using the dark back-drop bounded on the top by an illuminating line of colorful clouds and on to the bottom by a few illuminating boulders defining the earth against the darkness, has skilfully projected his figure with her deep red gown, golden head-dress, shash and shawl and her arms and utensils. Her white dog too gets shaded with the darkness of the night, and her bag with a slightly varying tone looks like a large size boulder.

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